Mannnon Gaudet is unhappily married to the owner of a louisiana suger plantation. She misses her family and longs for her native New Orleans, but most of all she longs to be free of her sufforcating domestic situation. The tension resolves around sarah, slave girl given to manin as a wedding present, whose young son Walter is living proof of where manon's husband's inclination lie. this private drama is played out against a brooding ahmosphere of unrest and bloody uprisings, as the whisper of a slave rebellion grow louder and more threatening.......